Updated June 09, 2023 by the ABC11 Data Team

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Homicides
Last 12 months
27
 Through June 06

Average Homicides
2020 to 2022
34

Per year

Homicide Rate
Last 12 months
12.9

Per 100,000 people

Average Homicide Rate
2020 to 2022
16.4

Per 100,000 people


Homicides over the last 12 months are trending down 20.6% compared to 2022, according to the latest data available from Fayetteville Police Department.

The murder rate over the last 12 months is down 21% compared to the annual average over the last three years.

The city averaged 2 homicides a month over the last year. In 2019, that number was 2 per month.

One way to think about the danger: in 2019, the murder rate was 11 per 100,000 residents. That’s about one third the likelihood of someone dying in a vehicle crash in North Carolina. In the wake of the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in Fayetteville from 2020-2022 rose to about the same as the risk of a fatal traffic crash in North Carolina. It’s been falling slowly in 2023 so far.

The risk of homicide remains much lower than most other leading causes of death in the state.



The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC11’s data team looked at the Fayetteville Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through June 06, 2023.

A closer look at homicides by police district

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates.

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